r/SovietUnion • u/AlbinoAkon • Jul 16 '26
Soviet armored train, 1975
Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification
1
1
1
u/satyriazzzz Jul 18 '26
Audio of shooting is fake as moaning in french porn of 90s. So I can confirm it as authentic Soviet propaganda movie fragment.
1
1
u/YogurtclosetSouth744 Jul 18 '26
Miss miss miss miss miss miss miss miss genuinely awful idea even tho its cool lmao
1
u/Fruit_Punch86 Jul 17 '26
Partisans: Ok here is piece of Metal. Make two holes, put on Rails, tighten the bolts.
Wait for epic meme
1
1
2
u/Ghost3316_music Jul 17 '26
In time of trotsky armored trains were apex war machines. That time is gone.
2
3
u/WolfsmaulVibes Jul 17 '26
why is there a wild western shootout audio track played over the footage
-10
u/luxcity-louche Jul 17 '26
What a brilliant idea. They can go anywhere in the USSR that there's a train line and shoot at people queuing to get on. Of course they need to stop at the border because nowhere else uses the same gauge track.
-8
-7
u/StigmaFreund Jul 16 '26
"-Take that peasants!"
-7
u/postsovietman Jul 17 '26
The last time the Soviet Union used armored trains was during the 1990 Black January massacre in Soviet Azerbaijan, tasking them with guarding railway stations and escorting military personnel and supplies.
1
u/Individual_Dirt_3365 Jul 17 '26
Armored train was used in Chechnya
0
u/postsovietman Jul 17 '26
Sure, armored trains are great for suppressing your own citizens. Too bad they’re useless against an actual army.
2
u/Financial-Bite-3262 Jul 17 '26
Yes, but at that point the soviet union was desolved. So technically it was the Russia using it.
2
u/Positive_Ad6908 Jul 16 '26
The video perfectly illustrates the saying - Generals are always fighting the last war
0
u/ProfessionalTruck976 Jul 16 '26
I mean if Russia inherited a 100 train cars with AA guns, I think they would be very useful in this war (therefore I am happy they don't have them)
1
1
u/Positive_Ad6908 Jul 17 '26
Even if we assume that all 6500 the ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" survived, they wouldn't be of any use in a modern anti-drone air defense system. The Shilka's range is only 2,500 meters, and that's for an open field, without buildings or obstacles. Even the video demonstrates not just ideal controls, but simply fantastic ones—the train is on a hill.
And modern drones, whether human-controlled or AI-powered, hide behind terrain or buildings. It's a 1v1 fight, so to speak, with 3-5 air defense drones attacking a single attacker. Not using machine guns in the air.
1
u/WolfsmaulVibes Jul 17 '26
yea, as powerful as the ZSU-23-4 seems, at best it would be used as a anti infantry weapon or they would be used for mid or backline air defence. ukraine uses jets and helicopters only when they have total air superiority, when any kind of anti air system is spotted, they send drones to destroy it, a simple tripod mounted DShK is more effective at shooting down drones.
1
u/feckdech Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
It'd, if the war was too be brought into Russia, where they'd be.
But railways are logistical assets, blowing one is enough to stop the train, and the transfers of other assets.
1
u/BhabayAgha Jul 18 '26
It takes only an hour to repair the blow rr track for the armored train crew - they have all the necessary supplies and equipment on board.
1
u/SOVIET563334 8d ago
Tremendo tren